Director David Ayer Says the Theatrical Cut of SUICIDE SQUAD Is His Cut
As you know, critics have been bashing the hell out of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. I thought the film was great, and I can’t understand why it’s getting so much hate. I've seen it twice already, and I enjoyed it more the second time around.
Shortly after the bad reviews started rolling in, there were rumors that the studio cut their own separate version of the film and that the cut that was released in theaters was a compromise of their cut with Ayer’s.
Turns out the final cut of the film is 100% Ayer’s. During an interview with Collider, Ayer set the record straight, and while talking about how there’s a lot of footage that didn’t make the final cut he said:
“We have a chunk, there’s definitely over 10 minutes of material on there. But this cut of the movie is my cut, there’s no sort of parallel universe version of the movie, the released movie is my cut. And that’s one of the toughest things about writing, shooting, and directing a film, is you end up with these orphans and you fucking love them and you think they’d be amazing scenes and do these amazing things but the film is a dictatorship (laughs), not a democracy, and just because something’s cool and charismatic doesn’t mean it gets to survive in the final cut. The flow of the movie is the highest master.”
So there you have it. Suicide Squad is 100% Ayer, and I thought he did a freakin’ awesome job making the movie! It turned out to be the film I was hoping to see, and I’m happy to hear Ayer come out and say that it’s all his.
There’s no word on if we will see an “extended cut” of the film like Zack Snyder did with Batman v Superman. If it happens, cool. If not, then there will be a lot of extra footage to watch in the special features. It was already reported that a lot of Joker footage was cut from the film, which makes sense because as fun as it is to see him in the movie, this movie doesn’t revolve around The Joker.